PERFECT WORLD ENTERTAINMENT OPENS NEW SERVER FOR“JADE DYNASTY”

Sept. 18, 2009– Redwood City, CA - Perfect World Entertainment Inc. (“PWE” or the“Company”), a wholly owned US subsidiary of Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD), has opened a fourth server to meet the game’s rapidly growing player base. Based on the popular internet novel“Zhu Xian,” Jade Dynasty features a unique martial arts style game play in a constantly evolving game world that players can access completely free of charge.

To accommodate the overflowing populations of both the European and East Coast USA servers and community feedback, Jade Dynasty will add an additional server located in the U.S. East Coast. The new server titled“Wildlands” will also be exclusively PvP, with no PvE only zones. The current servers will remain unchanged.

Jade Dynasty is the English-based version of Zhu Xian, one of China’s most popular online games. With its unique game play features and system, it offers an immersive game play experience not common to other free-to-play MMORPGs. Once in the stunning game world, players will begin their quest to achieve the secrets of immortality. Players will delve into a system where the choice between good and evil will shape their game play experience in terms of different skills, items and even a story unique to every player.

Perfect World Entertainment, a subsidiary of Perfect World Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: PWRD), publishes free-to-play, online games and provides online services in North America. The Company primarily publishes three-dimensional, or 3D, online games based on the Perfect World proprietary Angelica 3D game engine and game development platform. TheCompany’s previous releases included“Ether Saga Online” and“Perfect World International,” a free-to-play MMORPG which is currently played by millions of people worldwide.

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